"We’ve come too far, haven’t we?"

I hadn’t expected to travel this deep, and it caught me off guard.

Following the rats was all well and good, but our primary goal was to rendezvous with Harrison. If we delayed too long, he would start worrying.

"Yeah. We’re not about to end up back at Happy House, are we?"

Ethan muttered, and Kellyan pulled out his pocket watch to check the time.

"We’ve been walking for exactly two hours."

"Should we turn back? We can figure out what this tunnel is later."

Just as we were debating, we reached a fork in the path.

6.

The number was scrawled on the left wall of the passage. And that number was familiar.

"Six means…"

Important numbers to remember:

1 is Brunel, 3 is the Spring, 6 is Hague, 8 is Notium.

Hague.

It had to be referring to Westmore Hague, Number 10—one of Vanilla’s properties.

To think we would stumble upon this passage here.

"Where does this Number 6 path lead?"

Kellyan asked.

"It goes to Westmore."

"…What?"

He didn’t grasp my meaning at first. A few seconds later, his eyes widened in shock, then slowly filled with hope.

Of course. His goal was to retrieve his younger brother, Arthur. That reaction made perfect sense.

As we stood at the crossroads, hesitating, one of the rats suddenly turned back and looked at us.@@novelbin@@

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